Massachusetts · Private foundation
D Squared Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $870k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,644
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations D Squared Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $870k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.0M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $597k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $182k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $847k | 92% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $1,010,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Bps Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Aquidneck Island Land Trust | $352,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $201,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Preserve Rhode Island | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Tabernacle Learning Center Inc | $81,087 | 3 | 17% |
| Friends of the Bargello Inc | $72,154 | 2 | 37% |
| Iyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc | $52,965 | 3 | 1% |
| Green Oceans | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($440k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
D Squared Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · The de Ramel Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Gruben Charitable Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About D Squared Foundation Inc
- How much does D Squared Foundation Inc give?
- D Squared Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $869,631 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does D Squared Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (19%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are D Squared Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($1.0M), Bps Foundation ($500k), Aquidneck Island Land Trust ($353k).
- Does D Squared Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does D Squared Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as D Squared Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Beacon Foundation, The de Ramel Foundation.
- Where is D Squared Foundation Inc based?
- D Squared Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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